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Americans Colonizing Mexico City
from The Life Coach | The Tim Dillon Show #309 · #309
9 min
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Tim reads an LA Times article about American digital nomads flooding Mexico City and locals resenting the 'new wave of imperialism,' pointing out the hypocrisy compared to US debates on immigration.
- Tim notes that Californians and other Mexicans are flooding Mexico City and locals don't like it, adding "it works both ways."
- If you wanted to be a big open world, you're going to have to deal with occasionally sending and receiving people that aren't great.
- Tim reads LA Times article describing American presence in Mexico City as "a new wave of imperialism" for getting drunk.
- A Mexican man requests a menu in Spanish at an American restaurant, prompting Tim to note this mirrors the criticism Americans face over not learning Spanish.
- Tim attacks the LA Times as staffed by dumb people, joking their beat includes searching the comedy store with a black light for Chris D'Elia's semen.
- White people traveling are annoying—Tim describes American tourists at a Michelin-starred London restaurant asking for ketchup instead of hearing about historical courses.
- Calling Americans drinking margaritas "imperialism" is stupid and insane, and the LA Times didn't realize how crazy the article sounds.
- Posters appeared telling foreigners they're a plague and should leave, with complaints that the city is becoming more expensive because of them.
- A video game designer notes a distinction between people who want to learn about Mexico and those who just like it because it's cheap—the same distinction applies to immigration to America.
- The LA Times calls people Nazis for questioning immigration challenges to America, but writes sympathetically about Mexican difficulties with American influx—the hypocrisy is striking.
- Tim on the claim that white Americans are bolstering Mexico's caste system: "This is why people's brains have been broken."
- Mexicans complaining about Americans wanting English menus and coming for cheap cost echo the exact criticisms Americans make of Mexican immigration to the US.
- These are the same criticisms often leveled at Mexican immigration into the US by people frequently labeled as racist.
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